{"id":3177,"date":"2022-06-07T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-06-07T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/preprod.realtrends.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/07\/why-do-keller-williams-firms-dominate-in-10-year-growth\/"},"modified":"2025-03-13T02:43:56","modified_gmt":"2025-03-13T02:43:56","slug":"why-do-keller-williams-firms-dominate-in-10-year-growth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/preprod.realtrends.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/07\/why-do-keller-williams-firms-dominate-in-10-year-growth\/","title":{"rendered":"Why do Keller Williams firms dominate in 10-year growth?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>There&#8217;s no doubt that many reading our recent research, <a href=\"https:\/\/preprod.realtrends.com\/blog\/articles\/special-report-secrets-of-high-growth-real-estate-brokerage-firms\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Success Secrets of High-Growth Real Estate Firms<\/a>, will notice that the lists skewed heavily toward Keller Williams firms. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Keller Williams affiliates represented 27 of the 50 fastest-growing firms in growth in agents; 32 out of 50 firms in the growth in transaction sides; 33 of the top 50 in growth in sales volume and 21 of the top 50 in growth in per-agent productivity.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-the-question-may-be-asked-why-was-keller-williams-able-to-achieve-these-results\">The question may be asked: Why was Keller Williams able to achieve these results?<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>First, this growth was mostly organic. However, some of it was due, as with many other high-growth companies, through mergers and acquisitions, or combinations of some sort.&nbsp;However, this only explains a small part of these results.&nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-housingwire-piano-member\"><div id=\"membership-content\">\n<p>Keller Williams has been unique in that it is among the very few national companies with both a strong focus on recruiting (which many have) and a system that they established to measure accountability and results in this important area.&nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They simply executed their recruiting system better than most other national or regional brokerage firms.&nbsp;And, as is the case, recruiting more agents drives more transactions and sales volume.&nbsp;This is widely known to all leaders of our industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">It is the last factor, growth in agent productivity, that is the most surprising, although it shouldn\u2019t be.&nbsp;<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Keller Williams has also developed many different <a href=\"https:\/\/preprod.realtrends.com\/blog\/articles\/generate-sales-leads-without-handing-out-a-single-business-card\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">training and educational programs<\/a>, from Bold and Ignite to MAPS Coaching, which help its agent become more proficient. 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